Pivot3,
a leading supplier of video surveillance and virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) storage appliances, today announced it has been
recognized in Forbes’ annual ranking of America’s Most Promising
Companies. Pivot3 ranked number 74 on the list of 100 privately held,
high-growth companies with bright futures.

With nearly 600 customers across the globe, Pivot3 provides
purpose-built, scale-out storage and compute appliances for video
surveillance and virtual desktop environments. Pivot3’s flagship vSTAC™
product family delivers seamlessly converged, highly available shared
storage and virtual server appliances for modern virtual server and data
workloads. Today, Pivot3 is the global market leader in IP SAN storage
for video surveillance with over 7000 appliances in use around the world
ensuring the storage of critical video security data.

Forbes based this year’s list on a number of variables, taking into
consideration company sales and employee growth, quality of management
teams and investors, margins, market size and key partnerships. While
making its final decisions, Forbes turned to CB Insights, a
Manhattan-based data research firm that specializes in assessing private
companies. To refine its search, Forbes enlisted CB Insights’ Mosaic
software which scans 45,000 sources to measure a company’s health,
gathering myriad signals into a final score that Forbes then used as an
initial guide in producing the list.

“It is quite an honor to be recognized in Forbes’ List of America’s Most
Promising Companies,” said Rich Bravman, chief executive officer at
Pivot3. “To be acknowledged by such a well-respected publication is a
great achievement for our team and a testament to our technology, and
more importantly, a marker of our commitment to our customers’ success.
We have an extremely bright future ahead of us, as we have leading
storage technology solutions, an increasing breadth of customers, strong
partnerships and rapidly expanding market opportunities.”

Pivot3 was founded in 2003 on the idea that today's stack of virtual
servers, shared storage and networks could be converged to drive down
complexity and cost while dramatically increasing scale-out performance.
Today, Pivot3 has over 600 customers across the globe that have deployed
in excess of 7000 Pivot3 vSTAC™ converged storage and compute
appliances. Pivot3 products converge storage and compute in the video
surveillance, virtual desktop and virtualization markets, and have seen
particular success in the public sector, transportation, gaming,
education and retail vertical segments. The company has won numerous
awards and was selected by the Wall Street Journal for the prestigious
"2011 Next Big Thing" category. To learn more about Pivot3, visit www.pivot3.com.

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